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How to ace your cardiology interview

Optimal implementation of quadruple GDMT for HFrEF could potentially prevent 1.2 million deaths globally over the next 12 months jamanetwork.com/journals/jamac… Clyde Yancy, MD, MSc Javed Butler Boback Ziaeian 🤦🏻‍♂️ JAMA Cardiology

World Heart Federation Noncommunicable disease, including HF, account for three quarters of the deaths worldwide World Health Organization (WHO) has set goals to improve NCD prevention and Rx with 🎯set for 2050 Optimal implementation of quadruple GDMT for HF globally could result in over 25 million lives saved by 2050

We just published this in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology -- Advances (JACC Advances) "State of the Art Review".   It is a REALLY interesting read, using quotes from Thomas Kuhn's book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (the book that coined the word

Stephen W. Smith Moi Pendell Meyers This study suggests it takes 17 years for 14% of high-quality clinically relevant information to reach the patient. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.12…

You know your in medicine when having the whole weekend off is called a Golden Weekend and you feel like you won the lottery #cmgsays instagram.com/reel/DBrOg7htd…

That time you interviewed for a job as a ship’s physician but some guy from Atlanta who when to University of Mississippi got the gig because he & the ship’s captain were friends.

Happy Valentine’s Day to all. Here’s an echocardiogram of a real human heart that looks like the classic Valentine’s heart. ❤️ Enjoy your day!

In an external validation study, our simple #LE index (length of 🏥 stay + prior ED visits) had high discrimination & was well calibrated for 30 day ☠️ following HHF Performed better than complex scores #NTproBNP further ⬆️ performance (#LENT index) bit.ly/4aSJvPh

Duke Implementation Summit in Washington DC completed. A little time to take a walk “around campus”

Presented at #ACC25: Among participants with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, or both, oral semaglutide (14 mg) was associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular events than placebo after 4 years of follow-up. Full SOUL phase 3b trial

An oral formulation of semaglutide lowered the risk major adverse cardiovascular events by 14% in four years, with no change in safety profile compared to placebo, according to the SOUL study. #ACC25 Read the journal scan to learn more: bit.ly/4c7KN9K

Our Professor of Cardiology Dr. Stephen Little, MD will guide a fireside chat on the future of valvular heart disease, lead a session on tricuspid regurgitation management and is involved in many other sessions at #ACC25. spr.ly/60190Ql6z

3/30/2025. Happy National Doctor’s Day to my dedicated colleagues! (Apparently, it’s also National Pencil Day & National Turkey Neck Soup Day...so if anyone was going to say there’s nothing to celebrate today, you now know better)

This am, after negotiating the “Casey Motor Speedway” in torrential rain & experiencing the complete lack of driving etiquette of fellow motorists, I think Max & Furiosa had an easier trip down Fury Road. (Can George Miller do a documentary on Rt 6 for his next Mad Max movie?)

Update on robin’s nest in our pine tree. Looks like they hatched this am

JULY 1 MEMORIES: 7/01/84. Day 1 of internship: Welcome by Chief of Medicine, “There are only 3 reasons to be late for morning report. 1. You are administering CPR. 2. You are receiving CPR. 3. You’ve chosen a career outside of medicine.” Mic drop (if that was a thing in ‘84)

Today’s wildlife encounter. Mama turkey on a woodlands walk w her chicks

“I’ll stress him for 3 but I’ll cath him & stent him for 10!” In honor of Jaws 50th which I saw at a matinee in a multiplex mall theater in 1975. What would Quint say if he were a cardiologist?

When you’re teaching at the med school & the instructor guide suggests developing team “norms” but you grew up in the 80’s watching Cheers & your brain immediately switches. I doubt any students would have any idea what I was talking about